Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism

State Energy Office -- The state honored 13 businesses and nine events today for their outstanding and innovative clean energy efforts at the 2014 Hawaii Green Business Awards.

State Energy Office -- GreenSun Hawaii, a loan program administered by the Hawaii Community Reinvestment Corporation (HCRC), has reached the $3 million milestone of loans issued. The latest round of funding included the program’s first-ever commercial loan of $167,500 for a non- profit organization.

State Energy Office -- DBEDT has filed two applications with the state Public Utilities Commission (PUC) seeking approval to move forward with the Abercrombie Administration’s Green Energy Market Securitization (GEMS) program, which will make solar panels and other clean energy improvements more accessible and affordable to Hawaii consumers.

State Energy Office -- The White House today released new rules under the Clean Air Act governing what existing power plants must do to reduce earth-warming greenhouse gas emissions.

The Hawaii Strategic Development Corporation (HSDC) today announced the State of Hawaii’s $4.5 million commitment to Startup Capital Ventures II, a Hawaii- and California-based fund that will provide investment capital to help Hawaii technology companies scale.

In its second quarter 2014 statistics and economic report, the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT) projects stable economic growth in 2014 and beyond.

State Energy Office -- The Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism’s (DBEDT) State Energy Office and Gov. Neil Abercrombie commended the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission’s (PUC) issuance of four major decisions and orders today.

State Energy Office -- The Hawaii Refinery Task Force has completed its year-long study of the potential impacts of refinery closures and has submitted its Final Report to Gov. Neil Abercrombie.

State Energy Office -- On a per-capita basis, Honolulu is the leading solar city in the nation according to the Shining Cities: At the Forefront of America’s Solar Energy Revolution report by Environment America Research and Policy Center.

The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism (DBEDT) has launched the online Tax Credit Research Activity (TCRA) Survey (DBEDT Form 346) at dbedt.hawaii.gov.